Wednesday, April 22, 2009

You know your husband's ex girlfriend is a lunatic when, after 8 or 9 years, she is STILL sending the occasional email when she figures out a new address for herself to get past the block he has on her.

Just to ask, "Can we be friends?"

And then goes ballistic when he finally asks her kindly to let the past stay in the past.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

I've been fretting for a few weeks about going home (Texas) during April for bluebonnet season to take pictures of Amelia, and to spend Easter with family and friends. I especially wanted Amelia to have fun hunting Easter eggs, coloring them, etc. It just seems sort of anti-climactic to do it with just the two of us. Her first Easter we were at Granny J's, this last Easter we drove to our old church in Jacksonville and spent the day with friends; and this year I wanted to go to Dallas.

I was torn between driving and flying. One was affordable, but loooooooooooooong (driving) and almost not worth it for only one week. The second was NOT as affordable, but quick (flying). So I asked him if he cared if I spent the money to fly, and here is the answer that made me feel like a queen!

Friday, April 3, 2009

Now we're pretending to drive to the beach many times a day. She gets me some play keys, she puts on this huge blue straw hat, we sit on the couch, and I try to start the car.... and she starts yelling at me.

I always forget to buckle her in first.

There's something really funny about a 2 year old yelling, "MOMMY!! I NEED BUCKLE!!!" while sitting on a couch that isn't moving.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Dear Rafe,because I have nothing better to do than mess with you while you are in the desert surrounded by smelly, sweaty, dusty men - some of whom offered to arrange a marriage between their sons and Amelia when you showed them her picture (and they were serious) - I offer you this imaginary vignette into her future life.

Love, Your Wife!! :)

Calvin: "Darling, take my hand and let's swing for a while."

Amelia: "Oh, you're so decisive! What leadership!"

Calvin: "yap yap yap"

Amelia: "Absolutely fascinating!"Amelia: "I went fishing and caught a fish THIS BIG. I'm an outdoors kind of gal"Calvin: "Cool. Just my type."

My Favorite Post

"We are each of usANGELSwith only one wing and we can only fly byEMBRACING EACH OTHER "-Lucian de Crescenzo

About Us

It's three years later... we've been through another deployment, several TAD months of training and preparing for our 5th deployment (and the second YEAR long deployment). We've PCS'd to North Carolina where we met old friends from past duty stations and made new ones on our Marine Corps journey. And we're still unpacking, yet again!

6 weeks after my husband returned, we had the unexpected surprise of our daughter arriving almost 2.5 months early with a lot of post birth complications. Now we're getting used to our new "normal".

My husband just returned from what I now consider to be our 17 month deployment (if you count the months of special training in another city before hand) and we've unpacked and begun planning for our next move and... you guessed it... packing up again.

Ok, we WERE preparing for the deployment... now we're living it. And I'm more unpacked than I was!

We're preparing for a year long deployment, living in one city and traveling to another where my husband is in training for the next few months before he leaves. We've yet to fully unpack anywhere! This blog is for my husband, family and friends... and myself, so I can remember where I'm at! :)

PEACEit does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.(unknown)

Amelia in Azaleas

"I believe it to be a great mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense in it....Wecannot blink at the fact that gentle Jesus meek and mild was so stiff in his opinions and so inflammatory in his language that he was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from place to place, and finally gibbeted as a firebrand and a public danger. Whatever his peace was, it was not the peace of an amiable indifference."--Dorothy Sayers